Feature Preview: Inline Editor

[SaxonF]

Write and run queries from anywhere in the dashboard

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Today we are introducing a feature preview that gives you access to a new "inline editor". This is a SQL editor that is accessible from wherever you are in the dashboard. You can write or generate queries, run queries, view results, and save them to snippets if needed. It sits alongside other pages in the dashboard which makes it easy to reference tables, policies, functions, triggers etc while writing your queries.

As part of this preview we are also changing how you create and edit policies, triggers and functions to make use of this new inline editor. We often receive feedback around the existing UI based approach to creating policies, and our hope is that with the continued advancement of LLM's we can augment a plain SQL Editor with AI assistance vs needing a UI. The inline editor has access to an inline Assistant (press cmd + k while in editor) which will help you generate and modify queries.

To enable the feature preview, click your profile avatar, click feature previews and enable inline editor

What we'd like to know from you

• When you use the inline editor, please tell us what you used it for, how the experience was, and what could be improved
• For each use case, try the inline assistant (via cmd + k) and provide feedback on the results. We want to continue to iterate on our prompts so that accuracy is as good as it can be
• How comfortable are you using an open editor with templates and AI guidance vs the existing UI based approach for policies and functions?
• Any other ideas or suggestions

[Filsommer]

Much needed feature to avoid jumping between tabs when doing multiple different operations, really awesome to see this coming to life!
From my personal experience, this will save significant time (and navigation clicks) when:

1. Creating multiple RLS policies for different tables
2. Doing CRUD operations like UPDATE WHERE, DELETE WHERE
3. Doing anything related with tables + auth users

One odd behavior I found so far was having two AI buttons so close to each other that do the same thing. Somehow I was expecting the bottom one to open the cmd + K menu, but it switched to the global AI panel just like the top button does. Is this expected?

[SaxonF]

Good point. Will replace the chat button with cmd k to give it more visibility . May also move templates up to the top . Opening the full assistant should get context from editor if it's open, just like it does with sql editor.

[SaxonF]

Templates has been moved and chat button removed.

[freedomfraternity1822-ux]

muito demorado!

[DREAMFITLTD]

If you don't let me cancel I will sue you for false representation as I have documented. What did you do for me?

[freedomfraternity1822-ux]

se n'ao vender n tem dinheiro galera ajuda ai!

[nicolas-geysse]

Hello,
Looks good, just 1 thing I've noticed, not sure if it's related to my instal but there's no details of the error type in this panel. (?)

Thanks !

[loicb24]

Hi,

This is a great feature. However, I have a couple of places in the application where I would wish to be able to switch between "direct edit" and "assistant".

A very good example is when creating an new RLS Policy. I really like the "assistant" :

But when the Inline Editor Feature is enabled, I do not have this screen (directly the inline screen).

[Race428]

Just had this same issue and reported it to support before seeing this 😂